Historic Structures Database
Northway Building
Location: 431 S. Franklin Street
AHRS#: JUN-257
CBJ#: A-16
Parcel#: 1C070I020130
Year Built: 1917
Architectural Style: Late Victorian
Architect/Contractor: unknown
Historic Name: Northway Building
Historic Period: Territorial Gov
Historic Integrity: preserved/ contributing
Neighborhood: Juneau Downtown Historic District
Date of Local Designation: Not Designated
Date of National Register Designation: 06/17/1994
Additional Information
Two-story wood frame building with flat roof measures 31'x 96'. The first floor has storefront windows and the second floor has double-hung windows. It has a simple decorative cornice with a low-rising front parapet, head molding and dentils. It has tongue-and-groove siding and a wooden canopy.
Historical InformationOne of the first buildings to be constructed on the mine tailings from the AJ mine that formed the extension of S. Franklin. A house of ill-repute during early days, it later served as a gambling and card game parlor. It was converted it to a triplex in the 1960s. Northway Builders remodeled it into a commercial structure in 1984.
Historic Usecommercial/ residential
SourceInventory of Historic Sites and Structures, City and Borough of Juneau, March 1986, National Register Nomination, June 17, 1994.
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